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UNAPPROVED 1 Mounds View City Council Page Six 2 Regular Meeting September 12, 1994 3 4 5 Councilmember Trude asked what the addendum was. 6 7 Saarion explained that it was the dewatering in Groveland Park. 8 9, Councilmember Trude asked if there were extra funds in the franchise 10 fee funds to supplement the grant. 11 12 Saarion reported that Brager and she had spoken and since it was 13 a park project it would be appropriate to use the Park Dedication 14 Funds. 15 16 Mayor Linke stated that the Council could look into the funding for 17 the other improvements. The Park Dedication Fees earmarked for 18 Woodcrest Park could possible be found from other funding sources. 19 Mayor Linke stated that he supports this project wholeheartedly as 20 this makes two more parks ADA accessible. 21 22 MOTION/SECOND: Trude/Blanchard to Accept CM Construction's Bid 23 Withdrawal, Approve the Bid by Callahan Construction for the 24 Improvements and Authorize the Loan from the Recreation Activity 25 Fund to Replace the Parks Capital Fund in 1995 26 27 VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried 28 29 E. Consideration of Fixing the Form of the November 8, 1994 General 30 Election Ballot 31 32 Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, reported that the Charter 33 Commission met on September 1 and submitted language on term limits 34 to her. The Council discussed this item at their Work Session on 35 September 7, however, prior to that the Council had asked the City 36 Attorney to review the language and address some questions that the 37 Council had as to the constitutionality of the issue. The City 38 Attorney put forth a legal opinion which was submitted to the 39 Council and referred to the Charter Commission with several 40 questions for clarification regarding the language. The Charter 41 Commission met this evening and submitted new language to the 42 Council just prior to this Council meeting. 43 44 Orduno stated that the action that needs to be taken prior to 45 September 15 by the Council is to set the form of the ballot. 46 Orduno presented the new language proposed by the Charter Commission 47 and stated that the City Attorney had reviewed the language, not 48 changed the language but worked on the form. 49 50 Jim Thomson, City Attorney, distributed the proposed language for 51 fixing the ballot properly for the November election. The form of 52 the ballot would be one question. Thomson read the proposed 53 language. 54